Sunlight Here I Am

by Calonne, David Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780941543378
• ISBN10: 0941543374
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Sun Dog Pr

Summary

Cultural Writing. Thirty-four interviews and encounters chronicle the riseof Charles Bukowski. He speaks in his own voice about his writing and hislife, dutifully answering question after question.Included is his firstinterview in 1963 with the Literary Times of Chicago from his one-bedroomHollywood apartment, and his last--at poolside in San Pedro answering aGerman journalist in August 1993, seven months before his death at 73.Follow his journey from obscurity to fame in Europe and finally in Americaafter the success of the movie Barfly.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
David Stephen Calonne
Charles Bukowski Speaks Out	19	(5)
Arnold Kaye
This Floundering Old Bastard is the Best Damn Poet in Town	24	(6)
John Thomas
Charles Bukowski: The Angry Poet	30	(7)
Michael Perkins
Charles Bukowski
The Living Underground: Charles Bukowski	37	(3)
Hugh Fox
Looking for the Giants: An Interview with Charles Bukowski	40	(22)
William J. Robson
Josette Bryson
An Evening with Charles Bukowski: A Pulpy Receptacle of Bad Karma, Self-Pity and Vengeance	62	(6)
Don Strachan
Charles Bukowski Answers 10 Easy Questions	68	(5)
F.A. Nettelbeck
Partying with the Poets	73	(5)
Ric Reynolds
Charles Bukowski	78	(8)
William Childress
Paying for Horses: An Interview with Charles Bukowski	86	(17)
Robert Wennersten
The Free Press Symposium: Conversations with Charles Bukowski	103	(12)
Ben Pleasants
Interview: Charles Bukowski	115	(10)
Douglas Howard
Charles Bukowski: An Interview	125	(19)
Marc Chenetier
Buk: The Pock-marked Poetry of Charles Bukowski---Notes of a Dirty Old Mankind	144	(16)
Glenn Esterly
Faulkner, Hemingway, Mailer ... And Now Bukowski?!	160	(8)
Ron Blunden
Shakespeare Never Did This	168	(5)
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski: Quotes of a Dirty Old Man	173	(19)
Silvia Bizio
Charles Bukowski on Charles Bukowski	192	(4)
Gerald Locklin
Craft Interview with Charles Bukowski	196	(7)
William Packard
The Charles Bukowski Tapes	203	(3)
Barbet Schroeder
Charles Bukowski: The World's Greatest Fucker	206	(5)
Ace Backwords
Tough Guys Write Poetry	211	(13)
Sean Penn
Boozehound Poet Charles Bukowski Writes a Hymn to Himself in Barfly, and Hollywood Starts Singing Too	224	(4)
Margot Dougherty
Todd Gold
Charles Bukowski: Poetry, Short Stories, and Now... Screenplays	228	(3)
Christian Gore
Charles Bukowski and the Outlaw Spirit	231	(9)
Jay Dougherty
Charles Bukowski	240	(5)
Alden Mills
Hollywood	245	(1)
Charles Bukowski
Rhythm, Dance, Quickness	246	(2)
Pamela Cytrynbaum
Charles Bukowski	248	(5)
David Andreone
David Bridson
Outsider Looking Out	253	(5)
Kevin Ring
Bukowski Reflects: The Street Smart Sage Discusses Skid Row, Women, and Life at 70	258	(8)
Mary Ann Swisler
Pen & Drink	266	(10)
Robert Gumpert
Purity and Survival: John Martin and Black Sparrow Press	276	(4)
Neil Gordon
That's It...A Final Visit With Charles Bukowski	280	(3)
Gundolf S. Freyermuth
Index	283